Serge Gainsbourg corrects and signs his song about Marilyn Monroe.

"Norma Jean Baker – Nude on the Diagonal – Norma Jean Baker – Fifty Nembutals – According to the Attorney's Report – District Chief of LA"

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Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)

Autographed notes signed – Norma Jean Baker

Two in-4° pages on Floch printing paper.

Without place or date [Paris. 1986]

 

"Norma Jean Baker – Nude on the Diagonal – Norma Jean Baker – Fifty Nembutals – According to the Attorney's Report – District Chief of LA"

In preparation for his anthology published by Denoël, Mon propre rôle (My Own Role) , Serge Gainsbourg corrected and approved the proofs of his song Norma Jean Baker, featured on the album Baby Alone in Babylone, written in 1983 for Jane Birkin. In it, the artist recounts the tragic death of Marilyn Monroe, to whom he devoted an enduring admiration.

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Norma Jean Baker

One two three o five

Norma Jean Baker

Fifth Helena Drive

Who knows where she is now?

Maybe more in LA

 

Norma Jean Baker

Nude on the diagonal

Norma Jean Baker

Fifty nembutals

According to the Attorney General's report

District Chief of LA

 

Norma Jean Baker

Something is anor-

Mal Jean Baker

Phone in right hand

Norma Jean Baker

It is possible that she has

Wanted to call THE

 

Norma Jean Baker

August 5, 1962

Norma Jean Baker

Three forty-two hours

Norma Jean Baker

We'll take him away immediately.

At the morgue of LA

 

Norma Jean Baker

More beautiful than the Divine

Norma Jean Baker

Monroe Marilyn

Norma Jean Baker

Who knows where she is now?

Maybe more in LA

Norma Jean Baker

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Bibliography: My Own Role . Denoël. 1987

 

 

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